Posted on 11/19/2019 3:33:53 PM PST by EyesOfTX
Anyone who has ever spent any time in the business world has been in this meeting: You’re running a project, and you get your 20-member project team together in the main conference room for a meeting. You’ve prepared an agenda for the meeting, assigned whatever speaking roles need to be performed, distributed whatever pre-read documents are necessary for the meeting to produce its desired result.
You have done your job as the team lead. And the meeting goes just as planned. The discussion points were all covered, the various speakers all added well to the conversation. The meeting ended with heads nodding all around the table, and everyone seemed happy.
And yet, within hours you discover that the 20 team members left your well-planned and executed meeting with 20 different perceptions of what was said and what was supposed to happen going forward. In fact, one of the participants in the meeting turned out to be so upset because his priorities weren’t addressed that he actually decided to go lodge a formal complaint with Human Resources, and then gossiped about it with anyone who would listen in the break room.
You discover all of this because a few hours after the meeting ended, you got a call from HR demanding that you come explain why employee X’s personal priorities weren’t addressed in your carefully-planned and executed meeting.
Anyone who has been in a team lead and/or management position in the business world for any extended period of time has found themselves in this position. It happens every day in every sizable company in America.
This is exactly what happened in the wake of the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and his counterpart in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. You had a bunch of diplomats/bureaucrats/spies listening in on that call on the “American” side – although, given that he was offered the job of Ukraine Defense Minister no fewer than three times, it is questionable how “American” Alexander Vindman actually is – and every one of those career government employees left the call with their own unique impressions of what just happened.
One of those people – Vindman – was so upset that his own personal priorities for the call had not been met that he decided to go file a complaint, not with HR, but with the NSC counsel, and then went around gossiping about it to apparently anyone who would listen to him. One of those people was CIA plant Eric Ciaramella, who became the fake “whistleblower” who kicked off this whole affair after consulting with Bug-eyes Schiff and his staff.
In essence, that is what all of this has now boiled down to after three mind-numbing days of he-said, she-said, we-said, they-said, I-was-told, I-heard, I-thought, I-felt and I-was-upset nonsense from these “public servants.”
The big difference is that, in the business world, each and every one of these self-important jackasses would be fired by any competent boss. But in the government world, the worst that will happen to any of them will be getting reassigned to some cushy teaching job at Georgetown University.
These are exactly, precisely the very people 63 million pissed-off Americans hired Donald J. Trump in 2016 to get rid of.
That is all.
BUMP.
Where I worked, the person who went to HR with their feelings hurt because their personal issues were not addressed would have a not very fun discussion with line management. The next employee ranking session, well, would be another difficult experience for such a person.
In the real world these deep state commies would be rounded up and be tried as subversive spies and convicted as traitors.
In the business world, HR wouldn’t get to question the CEO.
This is an education in how to communicate.
A Congress critter puts up a strawman “If something despicable were done would you support it?” Of course, the witness says no. The the Congress Critter and the media say triumphantly that the witness changed his story and weakened the Trump position.
Someone needs to analyze it, not from the Trump or Schiff viewpoint; But from the perspective of a debate and speech coach.
In days of yore that would have gotten my security clearances pulled and I would have been sent to HR for outprocessing.
Assuming he gets the joy of experiencing the next employee ranking session.
I’ve tweeted that none of these so-called elite Deep Staters would survive in the business world I’ve been in the last 35 years. They are slow witted butt kissers of no great intellect. I’d be telling them to get the F out of my project.
Any case manager I supervised would have gotten a nicely worded verbal admonition to behave like a team member and stop whining-if they kept up the complaining to others, I would have given a written reprimand-with a copy to the company owner-for not being on board-and their next performance review would not be the best-if they stepped in it again, they would be told to clean out their desk and they’d be escorted to their vehicle-with a reminder that they had a signed non-competition and confidentiality agreement good for 2 years just in case they were tempted to go blab to the competition-I’ve only had to do that once...
Vindeman needs for that to happen to him...
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